Singularity and HashiCorp Nomad: A Perfect Fit for Enterprise High Performance Computing

Eduardo Arango is a Software engineer at Sylabs Inc. Currently a PhD student on Computer science, on Cloud computing architecture. His areas of research are High Performance Computing, Linux containers, Distributed Systems, and cloud computing. Eduardo is a software engineer at Sylabs inc, the company behind the Singularity OSS project, working on quality assurance and Read more about Singularity and HashiCorp Nomad: A Perfect Fit for Enterprise High Performance Computing[…]

Blog: KubeEdge, a Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework

Author: Sanil Kumar D (Huawei), Jun Du(Huawei) KubeEdge becomes the first Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Platform with both Edge and Cloud components open sourced! Open source edge computing is going through its most dynamic phase of development in the industry. So many open source platforms, so many consolidations and so many initiatives for standardization! This Read more about Blog: KubeEdge, a Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework[…]

Western Digital HDD Simulation at Cloud Scale – 2.5 Million HPC Tasks, 40K EC2 Spot Instances

Earlier this month my colleague Bala Thekkedath published a story about Extreme Scale HPC and talked about how AWS customer Western Digital built a cloud-scale HPC cluster on AWS and used it to simulate crucial elements of upcoming head designs for their next-generation hard disk drives (HDD). The simulation described in the story encompassed a Read more about Western Digital HDD Simulation at Cloud Scale – 2.5 Million HPC Tasks, 40K EC2 Spot Instances[…]

Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing

One of my favorite Amazon Leadership Principles is Customer Obsession. When we launched AWS Lambda, we focused on giving developers a secure serverless experience so that they could avoid managing infrastructure. In order to attain the desired level of isolation we used dedicated EC2 instances for each customer. This approach allowed us to meet our Read more about Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing[…]

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Barcelona 2019 Call for Proposals (CFP) Is Open

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon has expanded from its start with 500 attendees in 2015 to become one of the largest and most successful open source conferences ever. With that growth comes challenges, and CNCF is eager to evolve the conference over time to best serve the cloud native community. Our upcoming event in Seattle (December 10-13, Read more about KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Barcelona 2019 Call for Proposals (CFP) Is Open[…]

AWS GovCloud (US-East) Now Open

Last year I told you that we were working on AWS GovCloud (US-East), an eastern US companion to the existing AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region that we launched in 2011. The new region is now open and ready to serve the needs of federal, state, and local government agencies, the IT contractors that serve them, and Read more about AWS GovCloud (US-East) Now Open[…]

JD.com Recognized for Cloud Native Open Source Technology Usage with CNCF Top End User Award

By JD.com JD.com, China’s largest retailer, has been presented with the Top End User Award by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) for its unique usage of cloud native open source projects. The award was announced at China’s first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference hosted by CNCF, which gathered thousands of technologists and end users in Read more about JD.com Recognized for Cloud Native Open Source Technology Usage with CNCF Top End User Award[…]

CNCF Survey: Cloud Usage in Asia Has Grown 135% Since March 2018

The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the second time CNCF has conducted its cloud native survey in Mandarin to better gauge how Asian companies are adopting open source and cloud native technologies. The previous Mandarin survey was conducted in March Read more about CNCF Survey: Cloud Usage in Asia Has Grown 135% Since March 2018[…]

New Terraform Providers: F5 Networks, Nutanix, Tencent Cloud, and Helm

We are pleased to announce that F5 Networks, Nutanix, Tencent Cloud and Helm providers are now available for HashiCorp Terraform. This blog will detail the new providers and include links to additional resources. Terraform Providers F5 Networks F5 Networks is an application delivery solutions company based in Seattle, WA. F5 focuses on helping firms securely Read more about New Terraform Providers: F5 Networks, Nutanix, Tencent Cloud, and Helm[…]

Annual “CNCF Community Awards” Nominations Kick Off – Winners to be Recognized at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle

Nominations open today for the third-annual CNCF Community Awards – honoring those who have made the greatest impact over the last year in the cloud native space. Within our fast-growing project communities, there’s an incredible amount of talent, hard work and commitment worthy of recognition. So, if you know a deserving ambassador, maintainer and/or advocate Read more about Annual “CNCF Community Awards” Nominations Kick Off – Winners to be Recognized at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle[…]